Petty Officer First Class Johnnie Doctor Jr.

Inscribed

Pentagon Group Burial Marker Panel 1 JOHNNIE DOCTOR Jr IT1 USN

National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial

National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-72 Johnnie Doctor, Jr.

Petty Officer First Class U.S. Navy

What they earned

Also kept at

salute.nw ↗ Petty Officer First Class · Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

1968 2001

Allendale, South Carolina The PentagonSeptember 11, 2001

Lived in Washington, D.C.. Worked at U.S. Navy as E6. Served with Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

United States of America

Their life

Information Systems Technician First Class, United States Navy, fourteen years in the service.

His wife said he loved everything about it - that it was his family too. He enlisted at Fort Jackson in August 1986 and served aboard the Whidbey Island, the Aubrey Fitch, the Independence and the Stark, and travelled from Japan to Jacksonville to Russia and Australia. He came to the office of the Chief of Naval Operations in June 1999.

He came home from far ports with a t-shirt or some memento for his wife and stepchildren every time. She said he always knew how much she loved t-shirts, and he never forgot.

He looked after the sailors under him the same way - a little cash, a lift, some advice. His wife said she had calls from across the world afterwards from people he had touched.

He had recently started criminology classes at the University of the District of Columbia and was thinking of becoming a state trooper. She said he was so full of life, and excited for what was about to come.

How they died

Killed at the Pentagon on the morning of 11 September 2001, when American Airlines flight 77 struck the western face of the building at 9:37. A hundred and twenty-five people inside and fifty-nine aboard the aircraft were killed.

Survived by

His wife Andrea and his stepchildren Anthony and Lydeda.

The Pentagon

September 11, 2001

American Airlines flight 77 struck the western face of the Pentagon at 9:37. A hundred and twenty-five people inside the building were killed, and fifty-nine aboard the aircraft.

They were military and civilian alike - officers, analysts, budget staff, contractors, a group of schoolchildren and their teachers travelling on a National Geographic trip. No police officer died here.

The nation afterwards set aside Arlington's own rules of eligibility and buried the civilian dead in national ground, together with the remains that could not be identified, in Section 64. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.

Everyone taken by The Pentagon →

September 11, 2001

On a clear Tuesday morning, four airliners were taken. Two were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the western face of the Pentagon, and one came down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers and crew went forward at the cockpit door.

Two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven people were killed. Three hundred and forty-three were firefighters of the New York City Fire Department. Seventy-one were law enforcement officers. Eight were paramedics and emergency medical technicians. One hundred and twenty-five died at the Pentagon, military and civilian together. The rest - some two thousand four hundred of them - had gone to work, or boarded a plane, and belonged to no service at all.

None of them began that morning as heroes. A great many of them ended it as heroes: men and women who carried strangers down stairwells, who stayed with people who could not walk, who held a door, who went back up. Four men on a flight over Pennsylvania, who had thirty minutes of telephone calls and knew what had already happened, decided where their aircraft would come down.

At Arlington, the nation set aside its own rules of eligibility and buried the Pentagon's civilian dead in national ground. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.

Everyone taken by September 11, 2001 →

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